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How to Build a Successful Partnership in Work and Life

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Jamie and I adopted CliftonStrengths and refer to it often in our communication, both at home and at work. We have built a common language for support and growth as a couple. Katty Douraghy is president at Artisan Creative and an active member of EO San Franciso.

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A Founder's Guide: Essential Management Advice for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

Use Situational Judgement : tailor support for employees ranging from micromanagement for new hires to hands-off for high performers. Team Building Anatomy of a Reference Check : Then get out of their way. Cultivate growth mindset : View challenges as learning opportunities rather than fixed obstacles.

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

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Deal support / analysis / quant / legal for deals a partner is seriously considering. Portfolio company support & analysis. I’m a proponent of this ( provided the associates stay silent during board meetings ) because it gives the VC firm leverage and provides and extra set of eyes & hands to help support the company.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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I’ve watched VCs help with valuation support (spreadsheets, comps) on next round financing, participate in M&A meetings, interview senior job candidates – even help terminate tricky senior hires. If I were looking at which VCs to choose I would reference strongly for which ones are supportive in good times and bad.

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How collective data and storytelling can lead to lasting impact for underserved entrepreneurs

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The concept of building networks of support, or what has sometimes been referred to as, forging “entrepreneurial ecosystems”, has been a key focus for many advancing the idea that innovation and entrepreneurship will be the future of not just our recovery- but the necessary inclusive pathway for economic advancement and wealth building for all.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

After being largely ignored by Valley investors (the biggest checks in her seed, Series A, and Series B came from men on the East Coast), she finally found support from the VC elite. The whole thing started with Armstrong’s outright refusal to publicly support the Black Lives Matter movement and a walkout of employees.

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Latest Update on the SBA Community Navigator Funding Opportunity

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The program aims to place significant financial resources into organizations that wish to be hubs or spokes of entrepreneurship support and ecosystem-building efforts in their communities—particularly those organizations with deep roots in targeting underserved communities. Measuring Impact & Tracking Hub-and-Spoke Activities.